this thing has been dead and buried for a while now, but i figured i should leave up a proper find-me post.
i’m on twitter @pattheflip, i occasionally write for insert credit, and i edit Game Developer magazine. holla~
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this thing has been dead and buried for a while now, but i figured i should leave up a proper find-me post.
i’m on twitter @pattheflip, i occasionally write for insert credit, and i edit Game Developer magazine. holla~
-pm
We have the notorious “racist” HP webcam in the labs, so we’ve gotten a chance to play with it a little bit.
It’s worth noting that it recognizes the (only) black guy in the office, as well as grayscale printouts of Tiger Woods and Kimbo Slice.
The verdict: Tiger Woods really IS black. More importantly, why does the camera stare at the white women?
Not white? Working in a games or tech-related business? Token Minorities wants to talk to you. Just post a comment with some contact info and background (or email it to pattheflip@gmail.com) and we’ll get in touch!
pat m.
I wanted to put a post together over the weekend but it ended up getting taken over by Scribblenauts.
“Balisong” and “Tuk-tuk” are both in there. Good on ya, devs.
pat m.
Zombie Cow Studios
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Someone found me by Googling:
“a lady fuccin a garden.”
Happy Friday, everyone.
From a certain PC magazine’s inaugural issue in 1982:
We salute you, Random Black Guy and Random Asian Guy, for going boldly where no one (with melanin) has gone before.
pat m.
…and it summons a watermelon.
Good going, guys.
There’s no point to writing any kind of in-depth insightful commentary on this one – intentional or not, it’s hilariously fucked up.
Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Scribblenauts and see what kind of offensive stories I can put together, though.
Read up more here:
pat m.
Since the vast majority of traffic to this blog comes from Google searches for the guys in The 13 Hottest Men of Gaming, In Color, I thought I’d encourage the trend (read: pander to the masses) by giving some dap to the random people of color that show up in video games. We at Token Minorities know that it’s not easy being the only brown character in the instruction manual, guys, but we appreciate the pleasant surprise that comes up when we find you in the middle of your lily-white game world.
The inaugural character for Player Characters of Color is none other than Talim, from the Soul Calibur series.
While it’s no surprise to Token Minorities readers that one of the easiest places to find brown PCs is in fighting games, Talim gets extra dap for being the first Filipina in a video game and the least mindlessly sexified female character in a series that might as well have all their other women characters put the swords down and beat each other with their ballooning bosoms. That hasn’t stopped certain gaming magazines from including her in a swimsuit issue (PSM) or a “Girls of Gaming” spread (Play) – for shame, for shame.
Here’s hoping that she continues to kick colossal amounts of colonial ass with her two arm-blades while managing to wear more clothes than the rest of her female counterparts.
Matchup I’d like to see: Talim vs. Ferdinand Magellan.
pat m.